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Trailer for France 2’s Cold Feet remake Une belle histoire (A Beautiful Story)
Arte green lights: political thriller mini-series Alger Confidentiel (Algeria Confidential), with Ken Duken, Hania Amar, Dali Benssalah, Anna Schudt et al

UK TV

Shalom Brune-Franklin, Perry Fitzpatrick, Andi Osho et al join BBC One’s Line of Duty

US TV

Trailer for season 3 of Starz’s Vida
BET+ renews: Bigger

US TV show casting

Jorge Garcia to return to CBS’s MacGyver

New US TV shows

Trailer for HBO’s The Plot Against America
Fox green lights: pilot of genetic genealogist crime drama Blood Relative, with Melissa Leo
Showtime green lights: pilot of cursed married couple comedy The Curse
Hulu developing: adaptation of Graham Moore’s The Holdout

New US TV show casting

Tamala Jones to co-star in ABC’s Rebel
Auden Thornton to star in ABC’s Thirtysomething(else)
Tzi Ma and Kheng Hua Tan to co-star in The CW’s Kung Fu
Carl Lumbly joins Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Freddy Miyares joins HBO’s DMZ
Norbert Leo Butz to co-star in NBC’s Debris

Aidan Turner is Leonardo da Vinci; BBC2 finds a Witchfinder; Jim Jefferies is Jim Jefferies; + more

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Internet TV

Trailer for season 3 of Netflix’s Atypical
Natalie Morales to recur on Netflix’s Dead to Me
Sonya Walger and Krys Marshall promoted to regulars on Apple TV+’s For All Mankind
Patton Oswalt joins Amazon’s The Boys
Maxim Baldry to star in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings

Australian TV

Seven and Prime to merge

Italian TV

Sky green lights: adaptation of Niccolò Ammaniti’s Anna

Israeli TV

Yes developing: WeWork-style office comedy Shared Spaces

International TV

Aidan Turner to star in The Alliance (Europe)’s Leonardo
Digiturk (Turkey) green lights: unfairly dismissed professor drama The Choice, with Halit Ergenç, Ozan Güven, Aslı Enver et al
MediaPro (Spain)/Vice Studios (US) developing: crime thriller El Acantilado (The Cliff)

UK TV

BBC Two green lights: self-explanatory comedy The Witchfinder, with Tim Key and Daisy May Cooper

US TV show casting

Trailer for season 3 of USA’s The Sinner
Cara Santana to recur on Starz’s Vida

New US TV shows

Teaser for HBO’s The Outsider
NBC green lights: pilot of Jim Jefferies comedy
CBS developing: Cher-less mystery adaptation of Clueless

New US TV show casting

Greg Kinnear joins CBS All Access’ The Stand
Karrueche Tran to recur on Fox’s Deputy
Elizabeth Grullon to recur on Freeform’s Party of Five
Ben Miles, Joe Tippett, John Douglas Thompson et al join HBO’s Mare of Easttown

Silicon Valley cancelled; Vida renewed; Soldiers of Fortune adaptation; + more

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Internet TV

Amazon developing: privileged girl action comedy La Fresa

Scandinavian TV

Viaplay green lights: adaptation of Soldiers of Fortune as The Professionals, with Brendan Fraser, Elena Anaya, Saïd Taghmaoui et al

US TV show casting

Rita Volk to recur on Audience’s Condor

US TV

Starz renews: Vida
HBO ends: Silicon Valley

New US TV shows

Taj Paxton developing: Divorce Court biopic

New US TV show casting

Patrick J Adams to star in National Geographic’s The Right Stuff
Vanessa Lachey joins Fox’s BH90210

Cobra Kai, black-ish, The Bay renewed; YouTube Premium goes free; + more

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The Daily News will return on Tuesday

Internet TV

YouTube renews: Cobra Kai
…to end subscriptions, switch to ad-supported releases

French TV

Anders Walter developing: adaptation of Serge Le Tendre and Régis Loisel’s The Quest for the Time Bird

UK TV

Fleabag returns to the stage
ITV renews: The Bay

US TV

Trailer for season 2 of Starz’s Vida
Trailer for season 6 of ABC’s Agents of SHIELD
ABC renews: black-ish

US TV show casting

Jeff Tweedy joins HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm

New US TV shows

Teaser for Cinemax’s Jett
Teaser for HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones
ABC green lights: series of black-ish prequel mixed-ish
HBO green lights: series of orphaned daughter in high society period drama The Gilded Cage
Blumhouse developing: adaptation of The Infiltrators
Freeform developing: adaptation of Scott Turow’s One L

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